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This is Mars..

Help put a FR chapter on Mars.

In this image from NASA TV, shot off a video screen, one of the first images from a second batch of images sent from the Curiosity rover is pictured of its wheel after it successfully landed on Mars. The video screen was inside the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California August 5, 2012.The rover landed on the Martian surface shortly after 10:30 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday (1:30 a.m. EDT Monday/0530 GMT) to begin a two-year mission seeking evidence the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life, NASA said. REUTERS/Courtesy NASA TV/Handout


7 posted on 08/06/2012 1:02:31 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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This still from NASA TV shows a photo of the Mars rover Curiosity under its parachute as it landed
on Mars on Aug. 5 PDT, 2012. The photo was taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

8 posted on 08/06/2012 1:05:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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